Quickstart Guide

Quickstart Guide - Driving a Robot

Installation

Follow the instructions on the main Software Hub for downloading and installing Dawn.

Dawn has a built in interactive guided tour for beginners. You can start the tour by clicking the “Tour” button in the upper-right corner of Dawn (highlighted in red below).

Connecting to your robot

Step 1: Turn on your team’s router by connecting it to your computer with a USB cable.

Step 2: Connect your computer to the router over WiFi (note that the router may take up to a minute to boot). The network will be named after your team number. The password is printed on the back side of your router, at the bottom right.

Step 3: Turn on your robot. Be sure that the robot is turned on after your router is already running. Wait for the green light on your robot’s USB WiFi dongle to light up or blink before continuing.

Step 4: Press the button in Dawn to configure your robot IP

Step 5: Type your robot IP address. It will be of the form 192.168.0.2XX, substituting your two-digit team number for XX. For example, team 1 will have an address ending in 201.

Step 6: Dawn will start displaying peripheral information once you are successfully connected.

If Dawn fails to connect, try restarting your robot. (You should not need to restart the wifi router).

Connecting a controller

To drive your robot, you will need to plug in an XBox controller. Dawn will only detect the XBox controller once you press a button on it.

The “Gamepads” section in Dawn originally looks like this:

And here is what it looks like after plugging in a gamepad and pressing a button:

Template code

Copy-paste the following code into Dawn. Be sure to substitute your motor device IDs into the top two lines of the code.